June 8, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) announced that one of its liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays, HX7027, received the 2009 Outstanding Photonics Product Award by the Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association . The award will be presented at the Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2009, a prominent photonics exhibition in Asia, held at Taipei World Trade Center from June 10th to 12th, 2009.

The Outstanding Photonics Product Award recognizes the best photonics products by evaluating their innovative design, technological breakthrough, and marketability. Himax’ award-winning product, HX7027, is a color-filter LCOS microdisplay with VGA resolution (640×480) developed by Himax Display, a Himax subsidiary and is suitable for a wide range of pico-projector applications, embedded or standalone.

“We are thrilled to receive the award for outstanding photonics product from PIDA,” commented Jordan Wu, president and chief executive officer of Himax. “Our LCOS pico-projector solutions enable customers to develop a variety of pico-projector applications, several of which have won awards internationally. At the recent Computex Taipei 2009, a supermajority of the pico projectors exhibited were based on Himax’ solutions which we believe further validate our leading position in this emerging market segment.”

Himax leads the world in integrating color filter onto the LCOS microdisplay making it possible for one white LED to run the optical engine instead of three color LEDs and more complicated optical engines typically found in other pico-projection technologies. This proprietary technology not only enables a simple optical engine design, but also leads to lower costs, small form factor, and ease-in-manufacturing.

Himax Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets semiconductors that are critical components of flat panel displays.

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